80k After Hours

By The 80000 Hours team

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Episodes: 93

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Resources on how to do good with your career — and anything else we here at 80,000 Hours feel like releasing.

Episode Date
Highlights: #204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
Oct 30, 2024
Highlights: Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
Oct 21, 2024
Highlights: #203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
Oct 18, 2024
Off the Clock #6: Starting Small with Conor Barnes
Oct 15, 2024
Highlights: #202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
Oct 04, 2024
Highlights: #201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
Sep 30, 2024
Highlights: #200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
Sep 18, 2024
Highlights: #199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
Sep 12, 2024
Highlights: #198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects
Sep 09, 2024
Highlights: #197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task
Sep 05, 2024
Highlights: #196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
Aug 30, 2024
Highlights: #195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
Aug 19, 2024
Highlights: #194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
Aug 12, 2024
Highlights: #193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war
Jul 31, 2024
Highlights: #192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
Jul 25, 2024
Off the Clock #5: Leaving 80k with Maria Gutierrez Rojas
Jul 23, 2024
Highlights: #191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI
Jul 19, 2024
Highlights: #191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
Jul 11, 2024
Highlights: #190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
Jun 21, 2024
Highlights: #189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems
Jun 12, 2024
Highlights: #188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good
Jun 06, 2024
Off the Clock #4 (fka Actually After Hours): One Boxing with Julian Hazell
Jun 03, 2024
Highlights: #187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a “space bastard”
May 28, 2024
Highlights: #186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives
May 15, 2024
Highlights: #185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals
May 02, 2024
Highlights: #184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT
Apr 25, 2024
Actually After Hours #3: Finding the Tail with Dwarkesh Patel
Apr 23, 2024
Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin on the truth about effective altruism
Apr 04, 2024
Highlights: #183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more
Mar 29, 2024
Highlights: #182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more
Mar 26, 2024
Christian Ruhl on why we're entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks
Mar 21, 2024
Highlights: #181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond
Mar 20, 2024
Actually After Hours #2: Coming to America with Joel Becker
Mar 18, 2024
Highlights: #180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
Mar 11, 2024
Highlights: #179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
Feb 26, 2024
Actually After Hours #1: Bean Counting with Chana Messinger
Feb 19, 2024
Highlights: #178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting
Feb 15, 2024
Highlights: #177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps
Feb 07, 2024
Highlights: #146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren’t conscious
Jan 25, 2024
Highlights: #176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models
Jan 15, 2024
Highlights: #175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child
Jan 09, 2024
Highlights: #174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers
Jan 03, 2024
Highlights: #173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe
Dec 14, 2023
Career review: AI safety technical research
Dec 12, 2023
Highlights: #147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals
Dec 07, 2023
Benjamin Todd on the history of 80,000 Hours
Dec 01, 2023
Highlights: #172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
Nov 30, 2023
Highlights: #148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don’t
Nov 27, 2023
Highlights: #171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures
Nov 21, 2023
Highlights: #170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
Nov 14, 2023
Highlights: #169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels
Nov 10, 2023
Highlights: #168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we’re heading for an intelligence explosion
Nov 08, 2023
Highlights: #167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption
Nov 06, 2023
Highlights: #166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere
Nov 04, 2023
Highlights: #165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe
Nov 01, 2023
Highlights: #164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives
Oct 30, 2023
Highlights: #163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do
Oct 25, 2023
Highlights: #162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
Oct 24, 2023
Highlights: #161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite
Oct 19, 2023
Highlights: #160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment
Oct 17, 2023
Highlights: #159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI’s massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less
Oct 09, 2023
Highlights: #158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk
Oct 06, 2023
Highlights: #157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it
Sep 26, 2023
Highlights: #156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
Sep 22, 2023
Highlights: #155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
Sep 15, 2023
Highlights: #154 – Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters
Sep 12, 2023
Alex Lawsen on avoiding 10 mistakes people make when pursuing a high-impact career
Sep 06, 2023
Highlights: #153 – Elie Hassenfeld on two big picture critiques of GiveWell’s approach, and six lessons from their recent work
Aug 28, 2023
Highlights: #152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
Aug 08, 2023
Highlights: #151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
Aug 02, 2023
Highlights: #150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
Jul 25, 2023
Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact
Jul 19, 2023
Highlights: #149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating
Jul 13, 2023
Operations management in high-impact organisations (Article)
Jun 01, 2023
What is social impact? A definition (Article)
May 17, 2023
How to make tough career decisions (Article)
May 03, 2023
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
Apr 22, 2023
Career review: Journalism (Article)
Mar 24, 2023
Luisa and Robert Long on how to make independent research more fun
Mar 14, 2023
China-related AI safety and governance paths (Article)
Feb 23, 2023
Anonymous advice: If you want to reduce AI risk, should you take roles that advance AI capabilities? (Article)
Jan 20, 2023
Is climate change the greatest threat facing humanity today? (Article)
Jan 11, 2023
Marcus Davis on Rethink Priorities
Dec 12, 2022
Preventing catastrophic pandemics (Article)
Oct 25, 2022
Kuhan Jeyapragasan on effective altruism university groups
Sep 21, 2022
Career review: Founder of new projects tackling top problems (Article)
Sep 12, 2022
Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project
Sep 05, 2022
Space governance (Article)
Jun 30, 2022
Clay Graubard and Robert de Neufville on forecasting the war in Ukraine
May 25, 2022
Michelle and Habiba on what they’d tell their younger selves, and the impact of the 1-1 team
Mar 09, 2022
Alex Lawsen on his advice for students
Feb 28, 2022
Rob and Keiran on the philosophy of The 80,000 Hours Podcast
Feb 28, 2022
Introducing 80k After Hours
Feb 24, 2022